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An underwater exploration that overturns misconceptions about fishes and shows their organic lives, from tool use to social behavior. You can find more than 30,000 species of fish - more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians mixed. But for almost all their breathtaking variety and beauty, we seldom consider how fish think, feel, and behave. In What a Fish Has learned, ethologist Jonathan Balcombe needs us under the sea also to the other part of the aquarium wine glass to disclose what fishes can do, how they do it, and just why. Adding the latest revelations in pet tendencies and biology, Balcombe upends our assumptions about fish, exposing them not as unfeeling, dead-eyed creatures but as sentient, aware, social - even Machiavellian. They conduct intricate courtship rituals and develop lifelong bonds with shoalmates. In addition they plan, hunt cooperatively, use tools, punish wrongdoers, curry favour, and deceive one another. Fish possess sophisticated senses that competitor our very own. The reef-dwelling damselfish identifies its brethren by face patterns obvious only in ultraviolet light, and some species communicate among themselves in murky waters using electric signs. Highlighting these breakthrough discoveries yet others from his own encounters with fish, Balcombe inspires a more enlightened appraisal of marine life. An illuminating trip in to the world of underwater knowledge, What a Fish Has learned will forever change your view in our aquatic cousins - your pet goldfish included.
